[lsb-discuss] [Fwd: NSS public functions]

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Tue Aug 12 13:25:49 PDT 2008


Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>> Googling the archives of this list didn't turn up much discussion of
>> OpenSSL, aside from a thread re: Trolltech and US Export Controls.
>> Are the problems you're alluding to technical or legal?
>
> OpenSSL has been on our request list for years and years.  The problem
> is that the OpenSSL API is very badly done, and the OpenSSL team has
> told us that they don't have the resources to fix its problems.  Thus,
> it is essentially impossible to standardize in its current form.

To put it in a simpler (and possibly a little less contentious)
way:  it's not at 1.0 yet.




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